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The cyclical volatility of labor markets under frictional financial markets

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  • Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau
  • Etienne Wasmer

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This paper shows in an economy with search on credit and labor markets that a financial multiplier raises the elasticity of labor market tightness to productivity shocks, and that this multiplier is an increasing function of total financial costs in the economy. Under a credit market Hosios-Pissarides rule, total search costs in the credit market are minimized, and so is the financial multiplier. Relaxing that condition leads to larger multipliers which can match or even overshoot the elasticity of market tightness in the data. The reason is similar to that of Hagedorn and Manovskii (2008) small labor surplus assumption: we identify the configurations of parameters leading to small "bank" surplus or a small "firm surplus" in the credit market, conducive of an amplification of productivity shocks. Furthermore, when wages are endogenous, it is possible to partially relax the small labor surplus assumption in order to match the data.

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Paper provided by Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business in its series GSIA Working Papers with number 2010-E1.

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  1. Dromel, Nicolas L. & Kolakez, Elie & Lehmann, Etienne, 2010. "Credit constraints and the persistence of unemployment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(5), pages 823-834, October.
  2. Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, . "TFP during a Credit Crunch," GSIA Working Papers 2010-E70, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business.
  3. Wasmer, Etienne, 2011. "A Steady-State Model of a Non-Walrasian Economy with Three Imperfect Markets," IZA Discussion Papers 5758, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  4. Nicholas Bloom & Max Floetotto & Nir Jaimovich & Itay Saporta-Eksten & Stephen Terry, 2013. "Really Uncertain Business Cycles," CEP Discussion Papers dp1195, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  5. Haefke, Christian & Reiter, Michael, 2012. "What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?," Annual Conference 2012 (Goettingen): New Approaches and Challenges for the Labor Market of the 21st Century 62055, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  6. Etienne Wasmer & Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, 2011. "Propagation in a Model of Goods, Labor and Financial Market Frictions," 2011 Meeting Papers 119, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  7. Michael Reiter & Christian Haefke, 2012. "What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?," 2012 Meeting Papers 594, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  8. Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas & Wasmer, Etienne, 2011. "Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions," IZA Discussion Papers 5763, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  9. Petra Marotzke, 2011. "Macroeconomic Stability and Wage Inequality: A Model with Credit and Labor Market Frictions," Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz 2011-38, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz.
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  12. Pedro S. Amaral & Murat Tasci, 2012. "The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies across OECD countries," Working Paper 1236, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

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